Disconnecting consciousness: is there a common anesthetic end point?

AG Hudetz, GA Mashour - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2016 - journals.lww.com
In this article, we review (1) the importance of information integration in consciousness,(2)
early studies of network breakdown during anesthesia,(3) preclinical research …

[HTML][HTML] The spectral exponent of the resting EEG indexes the presence of consciousness during unresponsiveness induced by propofol, xenon, and ketamine

MA Colombo, M Napolitani, M Boly, O Gosseries… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the absence of responsiveness during anesthesia, conscious experience may
persist. However, reliable, easily acquirable and interpretable neurophysiological markers of …

[图书][B] Applications of percolation theory

M Sahimi - 1994 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …

Beyond alpha power: EEG spatial and spectral gradients robustly stratify disorders of consciousness

MA Colombo, A Comanducci, S Casarotto… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neurophysiological markers can overcome the limitations of behavioural assessments of
Disorders of Consciousness (DoC). EEG alpha power emerged as a promising marker for …

Progress in modelling of brain dynamics during anaesthesia and the role of sleep-wake circuitry

G Nguyen, S Postnova - Biochemical pharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
General anaesthesia is used widely in surgery and during interventional medical
procedures, but little is known about the exact neural mechanisms for how unconsciousness …

[HTML][HTML] Signal percolation within a bacterial community

JW Larkin, X Zhai, K Kikuchi, SE Redford, A Prindle… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Signal transmission among cells enables long-range coordination in biological systems.
However, the scarcity of quantitative measurements hinders the development of theories that …

Covariance mapping techniques

LJ Frasinski - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent technological advances in the generation of intense femtosecond pulses have made
covariance mapping an attractive analytical technique. The laser pulses available are so …

Statistical mechanics of consciousness: Maximization of information content of network is associated with conscious awareness

R Guevara Erra, DM Mateos, R Wennberg… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
It is said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In the case of brain activity and
physiology in general, complexity issues are being considered with increased emphasis. We …

The signatures of conscious access and its phenomenology are consistent with large-scale brain communication at criticality

E Tagliazucchi - Consciousness and cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Conscious awareness refers to information processing in the brain that is accompanied by
subjective, reportable experiences. Current models of conscious access propose that …

Eight challenges in developing theory of intelligence

H Huang - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A good theory of mathematical beauty is more practical than any current observation, as new
predictions about physical reality can be self-consistently verified. This belief applies to the …